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Bassem Jamoussi, Asad Abu-Rizaiza and Ali AL-Haij
Sustainable building practices are a response to environmental issues. Businesses and industries are assessing how their activities affect the environment. The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries have significant impacts on the en...
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Mini Malhotra, Piljae Im and Joshua New
Buildings currently consume 36% of the world?s energy and contribute nearly 40% of CO2 emissions. Many countries desire to generate virtual models of their nation?s buildings in order to coordinate research activities and inform market opportunities for ...
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Michael Gormley, David Kelly, David Campbell, Yunpeng Xue and Colin Stewart
National design guides provide essential guidance for the design of building drainage systems, which primarily ensure the basic objectives of preventing odor ingress and cross-transmission of disease through water-trap seal retention. Current building dr...
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Nanang Gunawan Wariyatno, Han Ay Lie, Fu-Pei Hsiao, Buntara Sthenly Gan
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The data reported by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) show that the fatal casualties and severe injuries are due to heavy shaking during massive earthquakes. Current earthquake-resistant building standards do not include comfort-level performance. Hence...
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Nanang Gunawan Wariyatno, Han Ay Lie, Fu-Pei Hsiao, Buntara Sthenly Gan
Pág. 157 - 168
The data reported by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) show that the fatal casualties and severe injuries are due to heavy shaking during massive earthquakes. Current earthquake-resistant building standards do not include comfort-level performance. Hence...
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Belen Ferrer
The new building codes tend to includevehicle impacts as part of the accidentalactions to be considered. Most ofthese codes use equivalent static loadto represent the effects of the impactagainst the structure. In this paper abibliographical review of th...
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Nanang Gunawan,Aylie Han,Buntara Sthenly Gan
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Modern seismic design and technologies have undergone tremendous developments. In modern design codes, building structures subjected to high earthquake loads are allowed to experience plastic deformations without collapsing, and the design is permitted u...
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Kevin Leahy, Colm Gallagher, Peter O?Donovan and Dominic T. J. O?Sullivan
In order to remain competitive, wind turbines must be reliable machines with efficient and effective maintenance strategies. However, thus far, wind turbine reliability information has been closely guarded by the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), ...
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P. Sharafi, S. Nemati, B. Samali and M. Ghodrat
In this paper, the development process of a deployable modular sandwich panelized system for rapid-assembly building construction is presented, and its structural performance under some different action effects is investigated. This system, which include...
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Ling-Tim Wong and Kwok-Wai Mui
Instantaneous flow rate estimation is essential for sizing pipes and other components of water systems in buildings. Although various demand models have been developed in line with design and technology trends, most water supply system designs are routin...
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Vladimir Mihajlov
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This paper aims to review the various forms of state intervention in urban planning, and its purpose is to reconsider guidelines for solving problems in cities, caused by climate change.After World War II, urban planning was guided by centralized state m...
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Pei-Pei Zhao, Zhen-Yu Wang, Masoud Babaei and Kamran Asemi
Despite the many advantages of tube systems with braces, known as trussed tubes, no specific seismic design criteria exist in the current regulations to design them, and practitioners utilize common methods used for common building structures to deal wit...
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Kaikai Cheng, Jitao Yao, Gao Lv, Naifei Liu and Yuwei Zhang
Various national and international standards for building structures and other common structures specify a design working life of 50 years. Therefore, the statistical parameters of loads and the design expressions in current design codes are also based o...
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Fernanda Schmitd Villaschi, José Pedro Carvalho and Luís Bragança
Urban planning is a valuable tool for growth control and city development, both to maintain the local urban identity and provide life quality for inhabitants. To regulate it, local governments have defined standards for a proper city?s growth through mun...
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Andrea Roncari, Filippo Gobbi and Cristiano Loss
Simplified seismic design procedures mostly recommend the adoption of rigid floor diaphragms when forming a building?s lateral force-resisting structural system. While rigid behavior is compatible with many reinforced concrete or composite steel-concrete...
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SODIEARI HENDERSON BOYLE, BROWN IBAMA
Pág. Page:19 - 28Abstract
The creation of the city of Port Harcourt was borne out of colonial development in line with the British Town and Country Planning Laws which prompted the promotion of security, health, convenience, economy, safety, and beauty. Housing in the city of Por...
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SODIEARI HENDERSON BOYLE, BROWN IBAMA
Pág. Page:19 - 28Abstract
The creation of the city of Port Harcourt was borne out of colonial development in line with the British Town and Country Planning Laws which prompted the promotion of security, health, convenience, economy, safety, and beauty. Housing in the city of Por...
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David Ekhuemelo,Emmanuel Terzungwue Tembe,Awa Mike Versue
The study investigated sawdust as a partial replacement for sand in production of hollow blocks with a view to reducing cost and converting waste to resource use. Sawdust of Daniella oliveri was collected from Timber Shed along New Bridge Wurukum, Makurd...
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David Ekhuemelo,Emmanuel Terzungwue Tembe,Awa Mike Versue
The study investigated sawdust as a partial replacement for sand in production of hollow blocks with a view to reducing cost and converting waste to resource use. Sawdust of Daniella oliveri was collected from Timber Shed along New Bridge Wurukum, Makurd...
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Eleanor S. Lee, Xiufeng Pang, Andrew McNeil, Sabine Hoffmann, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Zhengrong Li and Yong Ding
As rapid growth in the construction industry continues to occur in China, the increased demand for a higher standard living is driving significant growth in energy use and demand across the country. Building codes and standards have been implemented to h...
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